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| Report: Giants, Redskins to open 2008 season |
NFL Football |
03/27/2008 |
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| New York, NY (Best E Casino) - The Super Bowl champion New York Giants and Washington Redskins will reportedly play the 2008 NFL season-opener on Thursday, September 4 at Giants Stadium. The New York Daily News cited a league source in its report Thursday, but added that an official announcement probably won't come until next Monday when NFL owners are scheduled to meet. Defending Super Bowl champs have hosted the Thursday season-opener for the past four years, but the recent tradition of a Thursday night opener |
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| Rams ink wideout Caldwell |
NFL Football |
03/25/2008 |
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| -year contract with veteran wide receiver Reche Caldwell on Tuesday. Caldwell, 28, was a second round pick of the San Diego Chargers in 2002, and played four seasons with the squad before playing his best season with New England in 2006. That year, he recorded career-highs of 61 catches, 760 yards and four touchdowns. In 2007, Caldwell played eight games for the Washington Redskins, notching 15 catches for 141 yards. He will likely be the third receiver behind Torry Holt and Drew Bennett in the Rams' depth chart. |
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| 'Skins re-sign Fabini |
NFL Football |
03/24/2008 |
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| Ashburn, VA (Best E Casino) - Jason Fabini agreed to terms on a new contract that will keep the offensive lineman with the Washington Redskins, the team announced Monday. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. A 10-year veteran, Fabini joined the Redskins in March 2007 and started 13 games at right guard after Randy Thomas and Jon Jansen went down with injuries early in the season. Fabini played his first eight seasons with the New York Jets before spending the 2006 season with the Dallas Cowboys |
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| Redskins re-sign Frost |
NFL Football |
03/20/2008 |
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| Ashburn, VA (Best E Casino) - The Washington Redskins have agreed to terms on a new contract with punter Derrick Frost. Frost completed his third season as the Redskins' punter, and also served as the team's holder on field goal attempts. He produced a 41-yard punting average last season, which ranked the righty 18th in the league. Frost's 36.4 net yard average was 21st in the NFL. He placed 23 punts inside the 20-yard line and produced a career-long of 64 yards against the Dolphins in Week 1. |
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| Brunell headed to New Orleans |
NFL Football |
03/14/2008 |
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| a report earlier in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Brunell reached an agreement in principle on a two-year deal late Thursday night to join the Saints for the 2008 season. Brunell, who spent the past four seasons of his 15-year NFL career with the Washington Redskins, did not play a game in 2007 after losing his backup job to the resurgent Todd Collins. He did start nine games as recently as 2006, when he threw for 1,789 yards and eight touchdowns. With Drew Brees locked in as the New Orleans starter, Brunell wi |
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| 'Skins agree with Cartwright |
NFL Football |
03/08/2008 |
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| Ashburn, VA (Best E Casino) - The Washington Redskins agreed to a contract Friday with running back Rock Cartwright, bringing him back to the club for a seventh season. According to the Washington Post, the deal is for three years and worth $3.35 million. Cartwright has served primarily as a kick returner the last two seasons. He currently sits in fourth place on the franchise's all-time kickoff return yardage list with 3,157 total yards. Cartwright has also recorded 34 tackles on punt and kick coverage units la |
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| Seahawks sign RB Duckett |
NFL Football |
03/05/2008 |
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| 't released by the team, but the Seattle Post- Intelligencer reports it's a five-year package. Duckett comes to Seattle after spending one season in Detroit. The 27-year-old was originally taken in the first round of the 2002 draft by the Falcons. He played four seasons in Atlanta before being traded to the Washington Redskins in 2006. Last season, Duckett had 65 carries for 335 yards with three touchdowns for the Lions. The Michigan State product has rushed for 2,642 yards and 36 touchdowns in seven NFL seasons. |
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| Bears sign Briggs to six-year deal |
NFL Football |
03/02/2008 |
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| however. "I can see myself [back with the Bears], yeah," Briggs said last December. "I can see myself in a lot of uniforms. Honestly, I can see myself in a Chicago uniform. If things work out that way, which I hope they will, then I'll be back." The Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers were apparently also in the mix to sign Briggs. Chicago may have acted more urgently in re-signing the defensive stud after learning earlier Saturday that they were losing offensive threat Bernard Berrian to division-rival Mi |
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| LB Smith agrees with Chargers 5 days after 49ers released him |
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02/24/2008 |
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| bolster San Diego's inside linebackers group. He spent seven seasons with the 49ers, and was their leading tackler from 2001-05. He's spent the last three years playing in a 3-4 defense, which is what the Chargers play. Smith was drafted by the Washington Redskins in 1997 and played four seasons under Norv Turner, who is entering his second season as San Diego's head coach. Neither general manager A.J. Smith nor Turner returned phone calls seeking comment. Terms of the deal weren't available. Smith, an |
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| Eagle Day, former star quarterback at Ole Miss, dies at 75 |
Division I College Football |
02/23/2008 |
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| in the 1950s whose first college pass went for a 63-yard touchdown, died. He was 75. Herman Sidney Day died Friday at his daughter's home in Nashville, Tenn., after a short unspecified illness, the university said. He played two seasons with the Washington Redskins as a punter. Day spent 12 seasons in the Canadian Football League, where he was All-Pro in 1961 and 1962. Day was an all-Southeastern Conference quarterback who went 28-5-1 and won two league titles under coach John Vaught from 1954-56. He was d |
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